Quotes about Agency
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
— JI Packer
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
— Ronald Reagan
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
— Stephen Covey
We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.
— Martin Luther
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.
— Gregory Boyd
I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.
— Alan Redpath
God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.
— Philip Yancey
For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.
— CS Lewis
God has His own way of choosing His instruments.
— Mahatma Gandhi
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.
— Gordon Hinckley
How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?
— John Wesley